Mr. Martin Fraser:

As I said, it was precisely because of the pandemic. As the Deputy will have seen, running such a competition takes three to four months and is a period of uncertainty at any Department. At any given moment, these matters were under review, but the acting Secretary General was doing a very good job, so people were happy to keep that as it was. We were hoping to get to the end of the pandemic a bit more quickly, I suppose, and we are not there yet. A good person was doing the job and sometimes people remain acting Secretary General for quite a while. It was believed it was best to stick with the status quo up to a point.